Artist Quote by Philip Guston Download Open image “We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.” — Philip Guston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Inspirational Love Makers
If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do. — Carol Alt Copy Share Image
We are truly bombarded by images. To break through and be observed, let alone focused on, you have to have impact and power. — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts. — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
We consume luxury. We participate in the image industry in a meaningful way, and we have a look and a background that should be… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
“Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist', i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom.… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a producer. In… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point? — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
